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In 1952 Nimeiry graduated from the Sudan Military College, where he was greatly influenced by the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser 's Free Officers Movement , which gained power in Egypt that same year. In 1966 Nimeiry graduated from the United States Army Command College in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . Three years later he helped lead a military coup of the civilian government of Ismail Al-Azhari , shortly after which he was named Prime Minister of Sudan. He used his position to enact a number of Socialist and Pan-Arabist reforms. Nimeiry successfully weathered a coup attempt by Sadiq Al-Mahdi in 1970, and in 1971 was briefly removed from power by a Communist coup, before being restored. Later in 1971 he was elected President, and succeeded in ending the 17-year civil war between north and south Sudan the next year with the Addis Ababa Agreement . In 1981 Nimeiry, still President of Sudan, began a dramatic shift toward Islamist political governance. In 1983 he imposed Sharia , or Islamic law, throughout the country. In violation of the Addis Ababa Agreement he dissolved the southern Sudanese government, thereby prompting a renewal of the civil war. In 1985 Nimeiry authorised the execution of the peaceful political dissident and Islamic reformist Mahmoud Mohamed Taha after Taha--who was first accused of religious sedition in the 1960s when Sudan's President was Ismail Al-Azhari -- was declared an apostate by a Sudanese court. Shortly thereafter Nimeiry was overthrown in a military coup. Nimeiry lived in exile in Egypt from 1985 to 1999, after which he returned to Sudan. Today he is a member of the National Congress Party . TIMELINE
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